Emerson dines in Hampstead

Here is Emerson's laconic journal entry for this day in 1848.

June 25.        

Dined at Mr. Field's at Hampstead with Rowland Hill, Mr. Sharpe, and Stanfield, the painter.

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{Hampstead High Street looking down the hill towards Haverstock Hill, c 1902; source: thevirtualtourofhampstead.co}

{A romantic depiction of a more rural part of Hampstead in 1848 by John Everett Millais; source: liverpoolmuseums.org}

{Rowland Hill, postal reformer, was the originator of the penny post; source: cccmkc.edu}

{Samuel Sharpe (who seems to have looked a lot like Hill) was an Egyptologist and translator of the Bible; source: wikipedia}

{Clarkson Frederick Stanfield was a painter known for his pictures of boats and the sea; source: wikipedia}

{a representative painting by Stanfield; source: pinturayartistas.com/}

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Some sources:

Journals Of Ralph Waldo Emerson 1820-1872, with Annotations, edited by Edward Waldo Emerson and Waldo Emerson Forbes; Vol. VII, 1845-1848 (London, Constable & Co.; Boston And New York Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913)

Journals Of Ralph Waldo Emerson 1820-1872, with Annotations, edited by Edward Waldo Emerson and Waldo Emerson Forbes; Vol. VII, 1845-1848, (New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1912)